Introduction: Listening to music during physical activity reduces the perceived stress on body. Hence, this study aimed to evaluate the effects of music genre and sound pressure level on calorie consumption and physical performance of students during treadmill tests. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 27 students were randomly selected. A demographic questionnaire, Borg Rating of Percei...

Introduction: This randomized clinical trial (RCT) was conducted to evaluate whether use of music could reduce the pain and duration of labor. Methods: Between 2010 and 2011, a total of 99 women at 38 weeks or greater with spontaneous labor were randomized to fast music, slow music, and control groups. Labor pain was assessed on a visual analogue scale (VAS) at beginning of the active phase an...

Abstract Objectives: The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of music therapy and relaxation on hospitalized CCU patients’ anxiety. Method: The subjects of the study were 90 patients hospitalized in one of the teaching hospitals in Tehran. The subjects were assigned randomly to three groups: music therapy, relaxation, and control. Data were collected via demographic informatio...

Background: Music is one of the common therapeutic interventions using along with usual therapy in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This is one of the complementary and alternative medicine coincides with children and has positive effects on them. Therefore, this article aims to indicate some evidence about music application in autism and points the importance of using music in ASD because of th...

Every nation has its own ideals that objectifying them is by culture. In the process of this transformation, the architecture and music which come from the culture of each region have a fundamental role. Architecture and music have many similarities in conceptual directions, space, shape and morphology. They also have similarities in the basic and fundamental principles such as proportions, rhy...

Nowadays, automatic analysis of music signals has gained a considerable importance due to the growing amount of music data found on the Web. Music genre classification is one of the interesting research areas in music information retrieval systems. In this paper several techniques were implemented and evaluated for music genre classification including feature extraction, feature selection and m...

Introduction: Musical stimuli affect emotions, cognition, and other human characteristics, in health or disease. Today, an increasing number of healthcare centers, rehabilitation facilities, and daily programs for older adults recognize music therapy as a Non-invasive and sustainable intervention useful intervention. This systematic review was conducted to investigate the applications of music...